About

Who we are, why we exist, what we believe, and who leads the church.

Our story

Glorious Hope Christian Church began as TGIF Kissimmee, a church plant of The Grace International Fellowship in Orlando, [in year]. [Two or three sentences on how it started: a Bible study in someone’s home, the first families, the first place you met.]

In 2020 the church was incorporated in Florida as Glorious Hope Christian Church Inc. Today we meet every Sunday in downtown Kissimmee at 217 W Cypress Street: a Filipino-International church family with roots in the Philippines and friends from everywhere.

Members of Glorious Hope filling the Cypress Street sanctuary at the 12th anniversary service in August 2022, with the anniversary slide on the screen
The church family at our 12th anniversary service, August 2022.

Our purpose

To glorify God.

Our mission

To glorify God by living for Him, preach the Word of God, make disciples of Christ, and spread out the love of Christ to the community.

Our vision

The Church as an instrument of God in blessing the community physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Our ministry

Jesus is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.

Colossians 1:28, our anchor verse

What we believe

Statement of faith

These eleven articles are what Glorious Hope Christian Church holds to and teaches. Click any heading to read it.

1. God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

There is one God, who is infinitely perfect, existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

2. Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ is true God and true man. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He died upon the cross, the Just for the unjust, as substitutionary sacrifice, and all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. He arose from the dead according to the Scriptures. He is now at the right hand of the Majesty on high as our great High Priest. He will come again to establish His Kingdom of righteousness and peace.

3. The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is a divine person, sent to indwell, guide, teach, empower the believer, and convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment.

4. The Bible

The Old and New Testaments, inerrant as originally given, were verbally inspired by God and are a complete revelation of His will for the salvation of men. They constitute the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice.

5. Man

Man was originally created in the image and likeness of God: he fell through disobedience, incurring thereby both physical and spiritual death. All men are born with a sinful nature, are separated from the life of God, and can be saved only through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The portion of the impenitent and unbelieving is existence forever in conscious torment; and that of the believer, in everlasting joy and bliss.

6. Salvation

Salvation has been provided through Jesus Christ for all men; and those who repent and believe in Him are born again of the Holy Spirit, receive the gift of eternal life, and become the children of God.

7. Sanctification

It is the will of God that each believer should be filled with the Holy Spirit and be sanctified wholly, being separated from sin and the world and fully dedicated to the will of God, thereby receiving power for holy living and effective service. This is both a crisis and a progressive experience wrought in the life of the believer after conversion.

8. Healing

Provision is made in the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ for the healing of the mortal body. Prayer for the sick and anointing with oil are taught in the Scriptures and are privileges for the Church in this present age.

9. The Church

The Church consists of all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, are redeemed through His blood, and are born again of the Holy Spirit. Christ is the Head of the Body, the Church, which has been commissioned by Him to go into all the world as a witness, preaching the gospel to all nations.

The local church is a body of believers in Christ who are joined together for the worship of God, for edification through the Word of God, for prayer, fellowship, the proclamation of the gospel, and observance of the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

10. Resurrection

There shall be a bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust; for the former, a resurrection unto life; for the latter, a resurrection unto judgment.

11. Second Coming

The Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is imminent and will be personal, visible, and premillennial. This is the believer’s blessed hope and is a vital truth which is an incentive to holy living and faithful service.

Download the statement of faith as a one-page PDF.

Leadership

Pastor Paul Batas preaching from the pulpit, with the Worship banner behind him

Pastor Paul Batas

Church minister. [Two or three sentences: where he is from, how long he has pastored, when he came to Kissimmee, his family.]

A message from our pastor

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Church leaders and officers

The people responsible for the church’s ministry and finances.

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Becoming a member

[How membership works here: a conversation with the pastor, a membership class, baptism, and a welcome on a Sunday. Say who to talk to.]